AmantaScott 15 Minutes of Fame Nuit Blanche 2008 video

15 Minutes of Fame is an interactive sculpture installation created by Amanta Scott.

15 Minutes of Fame premiered at the Art Gallery of Algoma in 2005; featured in ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008 and has subsequently been exhibited in a variety of other contexts.

15 Minutes of Fame features a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items.

Visitors are invited to:

- open the suitcase; consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation - a personal artistic statement about incarceration - then:

- present and discuss their installation with other visitors

- write about their installation in the Book of Fame, which is on site and open for everyone to read.

Other visitors are invited to write comments about this and other installations in the Book of Fame.

Each installation remains on display for a maximum of 15 minutes. Installations are documented through digital photos and posted subsequently online.

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• art
• installation
• educational
• slideshow
• instructions
• politics